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Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

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Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

#31
"People" keep rattling on about how RSS needs to be revived.

Do these people live in some sort of alternative reality where:

- The guardian

- BBC

- Reuters

- Ars Technica

- LWN

- Hacker News

and a fuck ton others don't have an RSS feed?

Or some sort or reality where Flym (or the myriads of RSS apps) don't exist?

Because I sure as hell don't.

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

#32

Is there anything that can turn your email into a secure personal RSS feed? A feed reader that also includes emails would replace quite a bit of what centralized social media provides.

Something like this? https://developers.google.com/gmail/gmail_inbox_feed

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

#33

Did anyone else notice how corporations like Twitter and Facebook quietly tried to kill RSS in the past 10 years? RSS is a wonderful technology with embodies the spirit of the Internet. Facebook and Twitter are, by comparison, cancer. I often recommend WordPress to folks as an alternative for blogging, because it is free and has RSS functional out of the box.

Nothing is free. WordPress is also a blogging platform first and foremost.

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

#36

I'll repeat my plea for an RSS reader that enables the user (i.e., me) to efficiently process 1,000+ feed items in maybe 20 minutes. Also, it needs to automate aspects of managing feeds (detect when the fail, maybe find a replacement, give me an interface for resolving the problem). By "process" I mean: Read the headline and sometimes the summary, decide whether to read the story, open the story (if I'm reading it),…

Have you tried Newsblur? Its training feature is very powerful to trim down large feeds to only the topics you are interested into.

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

#37

Did anyone else notice how corporations like Twitter and Facebook quietly tried to kill RSS in the past 10 years? RSS is a wonderful technology with embodies the spirit of the Internet. Facebook and Twitter are, by comparison, cancer. I often recommend WordPress to folks as an alternative for blogging, because it is free and has RSS functional out of the box.

> Facebook and Twitter are, by comparison, cancer.

How are FB and Twitter comparable to RSS? And how are they trying to kill it? Like they're not supporting it on their platform? If so, why should I care? Or do you mean "they're conspiring to kill it across the Internet", in which case please elaborate.

EDIT: I'm getting downvoted; I can only assume people are interpreting my comment as vouching for FB/Twitter, which couldn't be further from the truth. I can be (and am) confused by his wording without supporting big social media companies. :)

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

#38

If RSS threatens to become mainstream again, expect pushback from content providers. I know a blog where the owner will ban any commenter from the site for even mentioning that there is an RSS feed. He believes that the RSS feed that his CMS provides by default, is somehow important for SEO, but he doesn’t want people getting his content through RSS because his way of monetizing the site requires that people reguarly…

Yeah, we need a new way of monetizing content on the Internet.

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

#39

If RSS threatens to become mainstream again, expect pushback from content providers. I know a blog where the owner will ban any commenter from the site for even mentioning that there is an RSS feed. He believes that the RSS feed that his CMS provides by default, is somehow important for SEO, but he doesn’t want people getting his content through RSS because his way of monetizing the site requires that people reguarly…

The obvious solution here seems to be to configure your feed to only provide excerpts? Like the most common default is anyway...

Re: Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance

#40
post #28

I'm surprised how often RSS is mentioned on Hackernews, and how infrequently some recommends Feedly. It has wonderful features, like saving articles, collection boards, team features, and popularity-based sorting options. (Full disclosure, I don't work for Feedly nor do I own any of the company. I just like the service!) http://feedly.com

My use of RSS has fallen (very recently) so I only consume a few feeds every day. However, I both enjoy and dislike Feedly. Here’s the rundown: Pros) - advanced features like highlighting, team management - pure free offering that just works - integration with pretty much every feed reader app out there Cons: - no ability/willingness to pull full text - iOS app is honestly kind of clunky I emailed them that I’d willi…

Given that one of the blogs I follow charges for access to a full-text RSS feed, my guess is that some sites might be upset with them if they did that.
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